| Definitions of 'vernacular' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"
2. (adj) vernacular
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
3. (adj) common, vernacular, vulgar
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
"common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
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| Definitions of 'vernacular' |
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1. (adj) vernacular
belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language
2. (noun) vernacular
the vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality
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